THE IBERIA RANGERS AND RICHLAND LADY BEARS ARE THIS YEARS FRISCO LEAGUE CHAMPS, CROWNED SATURDAY NIGHT AT LAQUEY…..3 UPSETS, ALL ON THE GIRLS SIDE, AND ALMOST ONE ON THE BOYS SIDE..THERE WAS NOT THE USUSAL PARTICIPATION AS IN THE PAST ON TROPHEY DAY UNTIL THE TITLE GAMES WHERE IBERIA, LICKING AND RICHLAND BROUGHT IN A NICE SUPPORTING CROWD……
RICHLAND HAD BOTH TEAMS IN THE TITLE GAMES……
LET’S START AT AT THE BEGINNING…..

GIRLS CONSOLATION
PLATO 42-36 OVER IBERIA

6 PACK SATURDAY STARTED WITH AN UPSET IN THE GIRLS CONSOLATION GAME…6TH SEED PLATO EDGED 5TH SEED IBERIA 42-36.
THE GIRLS SIDE OF THE BRACKET STAYED TRUE ALL WEEK UNTIL TROPHEY DAY WHEN ALL 3 GIRLS GAMES WERE UPSETS….
PLATO WON THE BATTLE OF THE BOARDS, 31-23 PULLING DOWN A DOZEN OFFENSIVE REBOUNDS WHICH LED TO NUMEROUS POINTS ON 2ND CHANCES…
THE LADY EAGLES DEFENSE KEPT ALL IBERIA SCORERS IN SINGLE DIGITS WHILE CARA COUCH LED ALL SCORERS AND HER LADY EAGLES WITH 23…

BOYS CONSOLATION
LICKING 70-69 O.T. OVER NEWBURG

THE BOYS CONSOLATION GAME WAS THE CLOSEST GOING TO OVERTIME BEFORE LICKING SURVIVED A PESKY NEWBURG WOLF TEAM WITH A 70-69 TRIUMPH..
THERE WERE 10 TIES, AND 11 LEAD CHANGES IN THIS SAW THE STATS MIRROR THE OUTCOME….REBOUNDING, FREE THROW SHOOTING, SHOTS FROM THE FLOOR AND TURNOVERS WERE ALL CLOSE…
A ONE POINT GAME AFTER THE FIRST QUARTER, NEWBURG LED BY 5 AT THE HALF, LICKING BY 2 AT THE END OF THE 3RD, AND THE CATS WOULD OUTSCORE THE WOLVES BY 1 IN OVERTIME, 7-6 FOR THE “W”.
WILSON MURRAY HAD 38 TO LEAD LICKING, HUNTER MENTOLA DRAINED 20 TO LEAD THE WOLVES..

GIRLS 3RD PLACE
CROCKER 62-37 OVER NEWBURG

THE 4TH SEED CROCKER LADY LIONS WERE TOO MUCH FOR THE 3RD SEED NEWBURG LADY WOLVES AS CROCKER PUT ON A SHOOTING CLINIC HITTING 24 OF 34 FROM THE FIELD FOR A 70% CLIP FOR THE FULL 32 MINUTES AND ROLLED TO A 62-37 VICTORY….THE LADY LIONS OVERCAME 21 TURNOVERS WITH THEIR HOT HANDS FROM THE FLOOR….THEY ALSO OUTREBOUNDED NEWBURG 24-8…
MEGAN BECKER LED THE LADY LIONS IN SCORING WITH 21…CLAIR AFFLOTER PAVED THE WAY FOR THE LADY WOLVES WITH 13…

BOYS 3RD PLACE
DIXON 65-31 OVER PLATO

THE DIXON BULLDOGS TURNED ON THE TURBO CLOCK WITH A 65-31 THUMPIN’ OF PLATO IN THE BOYS 3RD PLACE GAME…DIXON JUMPED OUT TO A 10-2 LEAD AFTER ONE QUARTER, LED BY 15 AT THE HALF AND WHEN THE BUZZER SOUNDED AT THE END OF THE 3RD, PLATO WAS LOOKING AT A 30 POINT DEFICIT AND A RUNNING CLOCK IN THE LAST 8 MINUTES….PLATO TURNED IT OVER 24 TIMES AND THERE WERE ONLY 5 SHOTS FROM THE FREE THROW LINE BETWEEN THE TWO IN 4 QUARTERS OF PLAY..
WILL SHELTON LED DIXON WITH 20, PLATO HAD NO ONE IN DOUBLES…

GIRLS TITLE GAME
RICHLAND 39-27 OVER LICKING

THE 2ND SEEDED RICHLAND LADY BEARS CONTINUED THE UPSETS ON TROPHEY DAY WITH A 39-27 DEFENSIVE STRUGGLE WITH THE TOP SEED LADY WILDCATS OF LICKING, ENDING THE LADY CATS RUN OF CONSECUTIVE TITLES…THEY WERE GOING FOR THEIR 5TH STRAIGHT, BUT RAN INTO A TEAM THAT CAN RUN, SHOOT, AND PLAY DEFENSE….
RICHLAND HELD LICKING TO 22% SHOOTING FROM THE FLOOR AND LICKING COULD NOT BUY A FREE THROW HITTING ONLY 1 OF 8…
THE TALLER LADY WILDCATS PULLED DOWN 25 BOARDS, A LOT WERE OFFENSIVE REBOUNDS ON MISSED SHOTS, COMPARED TO 19 FOR RICHLAND..
MIRANDA MOSS AND KATELYN COLE BOTH FINISHED WITH 12 POINTS TO LEAD RICHLAND…LICKING GOT 12 FROM KYLIE TAYLOR AND SHE WAS THE ONLY ONE IN DOUBLES FOR LICKING…

BOYS TITLE GAME
IBERIA 66-45 OVER RICHLAND

TOP SEED IBERIA USED A 26-8 RUN THE 2ND QUARTER AND A 20-8 RUN IN THE 4TH TO CLAIM THE BOYS TITLE, 66-45 OVER THE 3RD SEEDED RICHLAND BEARS…..THE RANGERS HIT 53% FROM THE FIELD AND OUTSCORED RICHLAND FROM THE FREE THROW LINE, 15-6 AND THAT’S 9 POINTS THE BEARS COULD HAVE USED……THE RANGERS WON THE BATTLE OF THE BOARDS 26-13…..
KOBE HALLEY HAD A BIG NIGHT FOR IBERIA WITH 25 POINTS…..RICHLAND’S VESTON FEARON PACED THE BEARS WITH 14.

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FTBL
THE STATE IS DONE WITH PREP FOOTBALL AS THEY WRAPPED UP FRIDAY AND SATURDAY IN AND NEAR JEFFERSON CITY…

CLASS 1 ON SATURDAY AT BLAIR OAKS HIGH SCHOOL JUST OUTSIDE OF JEFF CITY, THE WINDSOR GREYHOUNDS DEFEATED THE MID BUCHANAN DRAGONS, 43-20….

LAMAR IS THE CLASS 2 STATE CHAMPION AFTER A 6-3 VICTORY OVER ST. PIUS OF KANSAS CITY, THAT WAS FRIDAY NIGHT……
LAMAR OUTRUSHED ST. PIUS 150 TO MINUS 4…..
ST. PIUS LOST MORE YARDS RUSHING, 31 THAN THEY GAINED, 27 IN 4 QUARTERS…..ONE TOUCHDOWN AND ONE FIELD GOAL WAS ALL THE SCORING.

CLASS 3 HAD THEIR FINAL AT JEFF CITY HIGH SCHPOOL AND THE NEIGHBORING BLAIR OAKS FALCONS RIPPED OFF 62 POINTS AND BESTED THE MARYVILLE SPOOFHOUNDS BY 22 IN A 62-40 FINAL……

CLASS 4, JEFF CITY HELIAS, PLAYING IN THEIR BACKYARD AT JEFF CITY PUBLIC HIGH FRIDAY HAD A TD FRENZY WITH ST. LOUIS COUNTRY DAY AND WHILE BOTH TEAMS RUSHED AND PASSED FOR NEAR IDENTICAL TOTALS, 393 FOR HELIAS, 397 FOR COUNTRY DAY, THE CRUSADERS EMERGED A 35-30 WINNER……

JEFF CITY HELIAS WAS THE SITE OF THE CLASS 5 FINAL ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON……THE JACKSON INDIANS HAD THE MERCY CLOCK RUNNING ON THE PLATTE COUNTY PIRATES OUT OF THE KANSAS CITY AREA IN A 42-7 FINAL…

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IT’S MORE HOOPS TONIGHT ON 97.9 FM WITH THE FRISCO LEAGUE AGAINST THE OZARK CONFERENCE…
THE NEWBURG LADY WOLVES MAKE THE TRIP TO TIGER TOWN TO FACE THE LADY TIGERS…..
IN YEARS PAST, WE HAD THE TIGERS AND LADY TIGERS ON 102.3 FM, BUT THIS YEAR, AND THE FRISCO LEAGUE ON 97.9 FM….IN 2020, WHERE CHANGES HAVE BEEN MORE COMMON THAN NOT, WE’LL CONTINUE WITH THE CHANGE.
THIS HAS MORE TO DO WITH THE KANSAS CITY CHIEFS THAN ANYTHING ELSE….THE LADY TIGERS-LADY WOLVES WILL BE ON 97.9 FM THIS EVENING ABOUT 6:45 TO 7PM FROM WAYNESVILLE…..
ON 102.3, IT WILL CONTINUE TO BE THE CHIEFS MONDAY NIGHT HOURLY LONG SHOW, HIGHLIGHTING THE GAME FROM SUNDAY, A 22-16 WIN OVER DENVER…THAT STARTS AT 6…..

THE OTHER GAMES TONIGHT…GIRLS FIRST…
BOURBON’S AT DIXON
LAQUEY’S AT IBERIA
HOUSTON’S AT LICKING AND
RICHLAND;S AT OSAGE

BOYS GAMES..
MARANATHA BAPTIST VISITS LAQUEY
LICKING’S AT STRFFORD
STOUTLAND’S AT FORDLAND
PLATO HEADS TO TEH MANSFIELD TOURNAMENT THIS WEEK..
DIXON HAS THEIR J.V TOURNAMENT THIS WEEK….

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THE ARMY CADETS LAST PLAYED GEORGIA SOUTHERN ON NOV. 21ST, A ONE POINT WIN…THEY HAVE NOT PLAYED SINCE….THEIR GAME WITH AIR FORCE WAS RE-SCHEUDLED FOR DEC. 19TH WHICH MEANS TWO MILITARY PROGRAMS BACK TO BACK FOR THE CADETS……..THEIR ANNUAL CLASH WITH NAVY IS THIS SATURDAY, THE 12TH AT LINCOLN FINANCIAL FIELD, HOME OF THE PHILADELPHIA EAGLES…

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THE MIZZOU TIGERS WENT TOE TO TOE WITH THEIR SOUTHERN NEIGHBOR ON SATURDAY AND WHEN IT WAS SAID AND DONE, MIZZOU ESCAPES WITH A FIELD GOAL VICTORY…
PLAY ARKANSAS AFTERALL…

The BORDER Battle BETWEEN THE 2 first-year head coaches was a wild one. Arkansas coach Sam Pittman CALLED FOR AND THE HOGS converted A 2 POINT CONVERSION to go up 48-47, but Mizzou had an answer left..COACH Eli Drinkwitz’s squad countered with a field goal to come away with a 50-48 victory on Senior Day in Columbia.
AND TIGERS ARE FAUROT FIELD IN COLUMBIA AND IT’S A 12 NOON KICKOFF TODAY.

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KC
The Denver Broncos were no pushovers on Sunday night — a far cry from Week 7, when they fell to their rival Kansas City Chiefs by 27 points. But it takes a darn near flawless performance to upset Patrick Mahomes and Co. The Chiefs, for their part, were not perfect in this rematch, allowing the Broncos to go off on the ground and several times stumbling over themselves in scoring range. Still, they often looked as explosive as anyone when it mattered, with Travis Kelce flat-out dominating Denver’s defense in a 22-16 win.

The Chiefs’ close victory ensures a playoff berth and sweep of the Broncos in 2020, improving the AFC West leaders to 11-1 on the year, while dropping Drew Lock and Denver to 4-8 and a clear third-place spot.

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